that involves education, it involves tax policy, it involves job training. i think that is the core promise of obama's second term and that's where he's gonna have to put a lot of attention. >> in your book, our divided political heart, you talk about our historic attention to individual matters and on the other hand, the community, the group. do you see signs now in this climate that the gap between those two ideas can be narrowed? >> well, i thinhistorically we always have as a country. we've always upheld both individualism and community as part of us, and i think what you've seen on the conservative politics, historically conservatives cared a lot about community as well as individualism and i think over the last two to four years, partly because of the tea party, you've had much more emphasis on the conservative side, on individualism, and i think since the election you've had sort of the compassionate conservatives that start to make a comeback, conservatives who say, "we do need this balance," and so i'm looking, i think as a country, we essentially v